Province level ToT on Agriculture Sector Integration of Climate Change Adaptation
Nepalgunj-A 5-Day Training of Trainers (ToT) on Agriculture Sector Integration of Climate Change Adaptation, jointly organized by Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development of the Federal Government and Ministries of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives of the Provincial governments of Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces (supported by FAO and UNDP) was completed on 3 March 2019 Nepalgunj.
The ToT was one of the major activities of NAP-Ag Project - Supporting Nepal to Integrate Agriculture Sectors into NAPs (UNFA/GLO/616/UND).
The training included 29 agricultural officers as participants from Ministries of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives including their directorates, Agribusiness Promotion Support and Training Centres (ABPSTC), Agriculture Knowledge Centres (AKC) and Veterinary Hospitals and Livestock Expert Centres as well some local governments in Karnali and Sudurpashchim Provinces.
Similarly, a 5-Day ToT has been kicked off on 6 March which is jointly organized by Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development of the Federal Government and Ministries of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives of the Provincial governments of Gandaki Province and Province No 5. The training, is also supported by FAO and UNDP under the NAP-Ag Project. Thirty-six agricultural officers from Provincial ministries of Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives including their directorates, Agribusiness Promotion Support and Training Centres (ABPSTC), Agriculture Knowledge Centres (AKC) and Veterinary Hospitals and Livestock Expert Centres as well some local governments are participating in the ToT.
NAP-Ag project, in major, focuses on integrating climate change adaptation into agriculture sector particularly through climate change sensitive approaches (methods and tools) introduced in national and sub-national level development planning and budgeting. Developing technical capacity and institutions of agricultural ministries in such regards are major concerns of the project, which are foreseen to reach through delivery of relevant trainings and associated development of training materials.
The plan of interventions in the project has contained methods and tools development, formation of knowledge materials and delivery of trainings specifically in the field of agriculture sector climate change vulnerability and/or risk assessment (CC-VRA), climate change adaptation (CCA) measures identification, economic valuation and investment appraisal of the measures and CCA monitoring and evaluation (CC-M&E). NAP-Ag Project, in line of NAP-Process in the country, is supporting to reduce agriculture sector vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience and to facilitate integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant sector strategies, policies and programmes, in particular ADS and development planning budgeting processes at different levels.